How Different Women’s Sports Are Trying To Balance Fairness and Trans Inclusivity

03 Jun 2025 • 31 min • EN
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After a transgender high school athlete won two events at a California track and field competition, President Donald Trump has threatened to defund the state. On today's episode: Katie Barnes, author of Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates (St. Martin's Press, 2023), discusses the rules various leagues have set in place to ensure equity and inclusion and fact-checks some of the broader ideas held by the public about fairness and gender in sport.

From "Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast"

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